President Donald Trump's pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants and two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown have many people asking questions about the president's pardon ...

It is tiresome, but not surprising, that the polarized commentary in the days since the blizzard of pardons and clemencies issued back-to-back by Presidents Biden and Trump has focused on which ...

President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are considerable differences between the two sets of pardons, with a two-tiered system of justice ...

Now-former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ended and began their respective terms by issuing numerous pardons. The United States founders envisioned a narrow scope for the presidential ...

A lot has been written lately about Presidential pardon power. While many of us know its origins, we don’t know or at least give much thought to its implications. Article II, Section 2 ...

However, later on Monday, one of Trump’s first presidential acts was to grant a sweeping pardon to rioters who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who violently attacked police.

Trump’s massive pardon of those convicted of in the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol pushes him to the top of the rankings for most pardons issued by a president in modern history. Getty ...

And yet, the power of the presidential pardon, based on the embrace of the concepts of mercy and amnesty, essentially guarantees that, in fact, a select few are actually not held accountable for ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned. The pardons, ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington, who pardoned those who participated in the violence known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Long before Jack Sparrow, there was the Caribbean pirate ...

James Lankford, R-Okla., who has called Snowden a “traitor.” Trump has enthusiastically wielded his pardon Sharpie, but one name so far has failed to cross his desk. For years, supporters of ...